OCR for Android, iPhone and any other mobile device

If you develop a mobile application, you need OCR engine capable of capturing data from low-quality images, supporting various mobile platforms and not requiring much processing power. ABBYY Cloud OCR SDK meets all these requirements.

Fit for Mobile, Desktop or Server OS

Our service is platform-independent due to the fact it is accessible through Web API and is not running on your device. So you can develop mobile OCR app running under any OS: Android, iPhone, Windows Phone 7, BlackBerry, Windows, Linux, Mac OS, iOS, etc. and develop cross-platform application with no additional costs.

Full-Featured, Powerful OCR Engine

Using ABBYY Cloud OCR SDK you get access to the industry’s leading recognition engine, with a full set of professional features, including special recognition modes and image pre-processing features. Plus, our engine is already trained for extracting text in 198 languages and you don’t have to waste time for training it.

Save Device System Resources

OCR and conversion processing is CPU intensive that’s why cloud-based ABBYY Cloud OCR SDK is the great decision for mobile developers who are bound by limited processing power and limited memory space. There’s no system requirements, and an Internet connection is the only thing you need for your iOS, Blackberry, Windows Phone 7 or Android OCR apps!